my work in progress: variable, color font BroshK4 (for #COLRv1 format, I hope) #variablefonts #colorfonts #typography

Check out Plakato Color Grade: you can get some cool metallic looks

Chrome 98 is out, and #COLRv1 is now mainstream. Thanks to @abrax5 for making that happen.

A step forward: Microsoft Edge has updated with Chromium 98, and now supports COLR v1.

This week my experience using Macbook feels a bit like Win 95: I should start counting how many times it has crashed this week.

Should have posted yesterday: April 6 was 30th anniversary of release of Windows 3.1. Greg Hitchcock has written a great article about introduction of TrueType and the first TrueType Font Pack for Windows. linkedin.com/pulse/thirty-y…

Hurray for variable fonts support in Figma!

I finally managed to watch Freya Holmér’s video about (the math behind) Bézier curves. It is truly fantastic, with great explanations and visualisations. Its 1M (!) views are well deserved. youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzD…

Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer presented at the Granshan conference today announcing support for COLRv1 getting added to Glyphs. youtube.com/clip/UgkxVTcSn…

There are still some issues with sweep gradients, but yes, by and large FontGoggles now supports variable COLRv1. github.com/justvanrossum/…

#variablefonts and #colrv1 are a great combination

Nice info about COLRv1. I love they've picked up on this:

Johnny Iselin. That’s who she reminds me of.

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